Lorna Luft famous quotes

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
-- Lorna Luft

#Magic #Hollywood #Evening

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother #Eyelashes #Aquariums

Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
-- Lorna Luft

#Halloween #Hollywood #Looks

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother #Suicide #Anxiety

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.
-- Lorna Luft

#Reckoning

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American
-- Lorna Luft

#Air #Differences #Car

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother #Looking Forward #Birth

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother #People #Freak

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother #Independent #Agents

I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.
-- Lorna Luft

#Fun #Drug #Way

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother #Legends #Garlands

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.
-- Lorna Luft

#Opportunity #Tonight #Los Angeles

My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.
-- Lorna Luft

#Sister #Competition #My Sister

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother #Heart #Feelings

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
-- Lorna Luft

#Daughter #Mother #Children

If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off
-- Lorna Luft

#Blow #Gun #Want

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother #Electric #Audience

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother #Years #Lasts

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
-- Lorna Luft

#Phones #Want #Garlands

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
-- Lorna Luft

#Addiction #Traits

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mom

I was born in a blender.
-- Lorna Luft

#Born #Blenders

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
-- Lorna Luft

#Children #Want #Tradition

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
-- Lorna Luft

#Idols #Parent #Chance

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother #People #Saws

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother #Phoenix #Ashes

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make
-- Lorna Luft

#Making Changes #Force #Wanted

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mom #Daughter #Mother

The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?
-- Lorna Luft

#Country #People #Mad

A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.
-- Lorna Luft

#Gay #Men #Gay Pride

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.
-- Lorna Luft

#Careers #Live By #Wells

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
-- Lorna Luft

#Pain #Past #Shadow

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
-- Lorna Luft

#Drama

The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother #Class #Guilt

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
-- Lorna Luft

#Drinking #Marijuana #Dressing Up

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.
-- Lorna Luft

#Thinking #Coping #Surviving

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.
-- Lorna Luft

#Scary #Chaos #Frightening

A star needs all the rest she can get.
-- Lorna Luft

#Stars #Needs

Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.
-- Lorna Luft

#Girl #Would Be #Littles

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.
-- Lorna Luft

#Love Of My Life #Gone

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother #Memorable #Night

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.
-- Lorna Luft

#School #Careers #Junior High

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother #Shadow #Tabloids

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
-- Lorna Luft

#Ghouls #Doors #Ego

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.
-- Lorna Luft

#Mother #Crazy #People

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.
-- Lorna Luft

#Princess #Thinking #Dating

Dinah had all the class.
-- Lorna Luft

#Class

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
-- Lorna Luft

#Children #Way #Moments

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
-- Lorna Luft

#Parent

I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.
-- Lorna Luft

#Health #Body #Chemicals